Elevate Your PMO to Build Effective Teams Across the Organization

Does your organization have a project management office (PMO)? A PMO can play a critical role in the success of an organization through overseeing processes, facilitating consistency and communication across the organization, and developing skills of project-based workers. Organizations can take advantage of PMO resources to build strong teams to lead project-based work. Establishing teams using PMO expertise can drive projects to completion and propel the company forward, while also maintaining consistent vision throughout various teams within a company.

Since the responsibility and function of the PMO involves managing projects, following its leadership can enable you to effectively build a team of project-based workers.

One way PMO resources can influence how you build a team is through the focus on creating a balanced team. By assessing the makeup of the team based on competencies and skill sets, project-based workers can rise to various challenges and thrive in the areas where they are most skilled. Further, a balanced team will see more success as a whole, thereby increasing the quality of projects.

When you are building a team, noting and balancing two particular types of skills are crucial to the achievement project success.

Technical Skills:

Financial analysis

Schedule management

Quality management

Risk management

Complexity management

It is vital that teams include workers with technical skills relating to tactical aspects of the project. These team members may be more objective or analytical and can apply their skills to address the problem at hand.

Adaptive or Relational Skills:

Emotional intelligence

Cultural intelligence

Communication

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Matrix management

Conflict management

Leadership

It is just as important to equip a team with people who understand how to work with people. Team members with relational skills often have the ability to communicate effectively and work with clients and other stakeholders to advance projects or solve problems.

Using the resources of a PMO can offer your organization expertise that can be applied by building teams that advance the company’s strategic mission. Elevating the skill set of your PMO can immediately add value to your organization.

Strategy Execution is a global leader in organizational training addressing the inherently volatile and complex business environment that now requires a more holistic and adaptive approach to managing projects. We enable people to close the strategy execution gap and drive higher organizational performance by strengthening project leadership skills. By combining the best of cutting-edge university research and proven business techniques, we deliver training designed to increase alignment and engagement across teams, business units, or the entire enterprise. Learn more today at strategyex.com. Join the conversation on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

TwentyEighty Strategy Execution, the global authority in project leadership training, equips your people with the complete package of technical and leadership skills — the mindset, adaptability,and expertise to lead and execute projects in any context. With curricula in adaptive strategic execution, project management, business analysis, contract management, and more, Strategy Execution partners with your organization to build skill sets and change mindsets. It’s time to declare a new standard of performance. For more information, visit strategyex.com.

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TwentyEighty Strategy Execution, the global authority in project leadership training, equips your people with the complete package of technical and leadership skills — the mindset, adaptability,
and expertise to lead and execute projects in any context. With curricula in adaptive strategic execution, project management, business analysis, contract management, and more, Strategy Execution partners with your organization to build skill sets and change mindsets. It’s time to declare a new standard of performance. For more information, visit strategyex.com.